Welcome to Achille Ferris Online 1999 Weather Project and photos
Our school is situated in the center of the island of Malta in the Mediterranean Sea. It is only a few metres above sea level. Our school's population is about 480 mixed children of (age 3 to 11.) Our schgool Head is Mr Gaetano Grech E-mail Address(es): gaetgrec@waldonet.net Assistant Head Ms Jahel Sammut and Mr. Alfred Mifsud alfredmifsud@usa.net The class teacher is Ms Victoria Bajada and her class is Year5 (8-9 years) We have set a class weather station-consisting of an anemometer, rain gauge, thermometer and a wind sock.We shall be taking our readings every day at 12.00. Usually Malta offers long sunny periods even during January and February. In Malta it rarely snows but we have strong winds and heavy rainfalls but they last for a couple of hours only. Our maximum temperature today was 17c ,Sea temp: 14c Minimum temp: 9c Wind NW We will hope to be useful to your project. Thanks to all and I hope you will all have a Special 1999. Bye Alfred Mifsud (LINK PERSON) our school Website.
Some information about Banani International Secondary School. Many of you may have the details at hand already, though. Banani is a small girls' secondary school (grades 8 to 12) established in 1993. The population of pupils is 135, with 12 teachers. Though pupils are mainly Zambian in nationality, a few come from different part of the world, the furthest point of origin being Canada. The staff also originate from different parts of the world - Canada, the UK, Austria, Germany and Zambia. The junior grades follow a Zambian Junior Secondary School Syllabus while the senior grades follow the IGCSE syllabus. The School is located in a farming district of Chibombo (a rural setting) in Central Zambia at an average attitude of 1000 metres above mean sea level. The School is 80 kilometres north of the Zambian capital Lusaka along the Great North road. This is the main highway linking the south of the country to the north. The address of the School is: Private Bag RW 199X, Ridgeway 15102, Lusaka, Zambia. Telefax: 260-01-611134. It is only one teacher to be involved in this project (its me the teacher of Geography) and my new e-mail address is: "amalambo" banani@zamnet.zm The class of grade 10 will be involved in this project with ages of between 13 and 15. The names of the girls are: Precious Lumba, Hlambase Jere, Bhavini Desai, Natasha Ngwenya, Lupupa Chapewa, Mulela Mwila, Miyoba Mweene, Maryam Lushino Mfikeyi Makayi, Mwenzi Daka, Misozi Daka, Shula Kabunda, Nalukena Mutti, Chakubaisa Karima, Bwalya Kayumba and Chaitali Patel. The instruments we have are: Six's thermometer, cup anemometer, wind vane, rain gauge, clock hygrometer, dry and wet bulb hygrometer and barometer. For this project we well not use the dry and wet bulb hygrometer. Banani experiences a tropical climate (savanna). It is wet and warm between October and April; cool between May and late July; and hot and dry between August and late October. Our place, friends, knows no snow but high temperatures. We are eager to take part in the project. Best regards, AH. Malambo
1. Bedales School, Petersfield, Hants, UK, GU32 2DD. Bedales is a fee-paying school for boys and girls aged 13 to 18. There are 400 on the roll. You may like to look at some related web sites?: 1 2 3 4 2. Teachers involved: Colin Prowse, Jackie Sueref and Kevin Adlam - all Geography teachers [email contact as above] and Frank Oliver in the Physics Department (for pressure data) 3. All of our fifth-form (final year GCSE) will be involved: ALLEN, BOYD ASHTON, LYSANDER ASHWORTH, LUKE AUSTIN, MAX BANKS, JOSEPH BATES, Julian BERGESEN, NICHOLAS BLUM, Bianca BOATRIGHT, JAMES BOND, JONATHAN BOYS, TILLY CARP, LUCY CASTRO, NATALIE CHURCH, ATHENE COLEMAN, OLIVER CROSTHWAIT, DAVID D'Abo, Polly DAVIES, WILL DELLAL, ALEXANDER EHRLICH, ALEXANDER FARROW, JONI GASQUOINE, EGG GOODGER, BEN GRAHAM, RICHARD GRAY, BEN HART, CHLOE HILLER, TIM HODGE, FLORA HOWSON, RICHARD INUGAI-DIXON, ADELE LIPPIETT, OLIVER LLEWELLYN, HENRY LONSDALE, TAHNEE MACLEOD, HEATHER MARTIN, Charlotte MARTIN, Melanie MILLER, DAN MULDOON, RUPERT NICKLIN, AMY PAGE, KATHERINE PERIGO, OLIVER ROBERTS, JOSH ROYCE, LAURA SHARPLES, ANNA SHAW, PETER SIMM, STEPHEN SMITH, KIRSTY STEWART, ANDREW SUMMERFIELD, JOSEPH WENTWORTH, FELIX WISE, ANTONIA WOLSTENHOLME, ASHA WOOD, IAIN WRIGHT, ALLY 4. Pupils are aged about 16. 5. 51 degrees 1 minute north ; 0 degrees 27 minutes west. 100 m amsl. c. 25 km from the English Channel. in the far wester margin of the Weald with steep sided but low chalk hills to the north, west and south. Bedales accounts for about a third of the land area and about a tenth of the population of the village of Steep - total population 1000. The nearby town of Petersfield has 13000 inhabitants. Only light industry in the area - footloose service industries have begun to dominate with the building of the "motorway" around the town. Some forest (oak on the clay, beech on the steep chalk slopes) but largely an agricultural area - mixed farming. N.B. the Petersfield area (including the school) effectively sits in a bowl and can have very different weather to that experienced not more than 10 km away over the chalk hills. There is a tendency for both hill fog and radiation fog with attendant colder temperatures and lower sunshine levels. 6. Observation time 11:20 to 11:30 am. 7. Automatic Weather station is currently out of service due partly to a computer network changeover. Will probably be manual collection in a suitably exposed site (Butts field) where the weather station is sited. Simple min/max thermometer, Casella anemometer, simple plastic raingauge, wind vane etc. 8. During the data collection period the weather is most likely to be quite typical of a cool temperate humid maritime climate with temperatures at 11:30 between 5 and 10 degC (but possibly up to 15!). Frost is not common and snow even rarer. It is the time of year when our temperatures are at their lowest and rainfall quite high - around 20-30 mm over the recording period is not unlikely. The weather is likely to be very variable however as depressions track across from the west interspersed with anticyclonic interludes that can persist, but usually last a few hours only! Under depressions our weather is likely to be very similar to that across much of the south of England. Under an anticyclone local variations can make our weather here quite peculiar! Good luck and best wishes to all.
1. Name and address: Bor's School, S-330 15 BOR, SWEDEN 2. Teachers who will be involved: Christer Helander christer.helander@bor.varnamo.se Henric Gustavsson henric.gustavsson@bor.varnamo.se Arne Lennartsson arne.lennartsson@bor.varnamo.se all teaching in physics, maths and computer science Bors School MetLink 99 Website & photos School Website. 3. The names of the students who will be involved: Angelica Lonn, Anna Stahl, Sara Jendefors, Anders Kristiansson, Alexander Zovic, Kristin Andersson, Joakim Lindstrom, Mikael SellÈn, Rebecca Sibner, Sebastian Svensson and Emelie Svensson. 4. The students are 15 years old, in grade 8. 5. Bor is a small village (2000 inhabitants) situated 12 km outside the town of Varnamo. It is surrounded by large forrests, many small lakes and farmlands as well. There are also a lot of small factories, many of them are manufacturing goods for the rubber, plastic and wood industries. Distance to the west coast is 140 km, to the east coast is 180 km and to the south coast 300 km. Position: latitude 57 05 N and longitud 14 11 E 6. Weather observations will be taken each morning at 07.30 GMT 7. Some of the instuments are located in a well ventilated house near the school buildings. Max and min thermometer and hygrometer, anemometer, barometer. All these are electronical. A manual rain gauge completes the instrumentation. 8. The average temp.for January/February is -3.6 C . The precipitation for January is 56 mm and for February 37 mm. (Varnamo 1961-1990) Last year was extremely wet. The rainfall in Varnamo was 1008 mm. It was the highest value ever since 1866, when the recordings started. We look forward to participating in the project. We were on the train last year too. Please see here for details. Christer Helander Bor's School, S-330 15 BOR, Sweden Tel: +46 (0)370-650950 Fax: +46 (0)370-650509 E-Mail: christer.helander@bor.varnamo.se List of schools
Dear MetLink colleagues, This is the second year for us - lets hope this year is as productive as last year! Here are the details for Bryanston School. 1. Address of school: Bryanston School, Blandford, Dorset DT11 7LA. Tel 01258 452411. More details of the school can be found here. 2. There are five teachers involved with sets of pupils who will be using the data generated. Principal contact and Head of Department: Steve Richardson. Other teachers: Hil Daynes; Natalie Insole; Caroline Parry; Brian Stebbings. We are all Geography teachers. 3. There will be 130 pupils using the data aged 13-14 years. This is too many to name! There will also be a small Sixth Form (16-17 years) group whose names are: Mike Bascombe; Katherine Cran; Kirsty Alleyne; Sheona Grant; Matthew Heatcoat-Amory; David Wilkins; Chaitanya Vaidya; Geoffrey Rymer. 4. 50 52'N 211'W The precise location of Bryanston School and details of the location Bryanston is about 80m above sea level 25 km inland, on the east-facing slope of the valley of the River Stourjust outside Blandford, which has a population of around 11,000. The regionis dominated by farming, although tourism is also an important industry. 5. We hope to make observations at 9.00 a.m. each day. 7. We will be using a Davis automitic weather system, located on top of one of the school buildings. 8. January and February are the stormiest months of the year, with some of the worst ever winds recored in January and Febrary of 1991. In Janary 1998 a tornado crossed the southeast part of the region. However, given the nearness to the English Channel, it is usually warm and wet, with the odd cold day or days. However, cold weather here means -5C at night and 2-3C during the day. It is possible to have snow (some is forecast for tomorrow) but it usually melts soon after falling.
1. Name and address: Casterton Community College, Ryhall Road, Great Casterton, Stamford, Lincolnshire, UK, PE9 4AT 2. The Geography Teachers involved are: Mike Davis (Head of Geography) mtcvdavis@msn.com Christine Bellis gbellis@msn.com Jonny Watts 3. The names of the students involved are: Alexandra Barton, Laura Sheahan (both are 15 years old) Sam Bent, Elaine Birch, Rebecca Bloomfield, Zoe Bush, Michelle Cooper, Jo Cramp, Elizabeth Elliott, Cathryn Fiddler, Jason Grainger, Nicholas Greenwood, Lucinda Harris, Amanda Jennings, Mark Kettle, Samantha Kew, Harry Mackrill, Robert Mathers, Sharon Mewes, David Peacock, David Rawlings, Mark Richards, Michael Russon, Guy Sharman, Stuart Soutar, Louise Stafford, David Stebbings, Daniel Stephens, Nicola Tibbert, Fiona Tointon, Matthew Woodman, Katherine Tannock 4. The students are Year 8 (12 years old) and studying weather as a unit of work in their National Curriculum Geography course 5. Casterton Community College is at latitude 52.40N; longitude 00.31W. It is 53 metres above sea level on the north east facing valley side of the River Gwash. The College is on the northern edge of the small village of Great Casterton which is in the county of Rutland. The village is 3 kms north west of the market town of Stamford and is surrounded by arable farmland. 7 kms to the west is the large reservoir called Rutland Water. 6. Weather observations will be taken each afternoon at 13.00 GMT 7. Data will come from an automatic weather station on the school roof and from thermometers and a rain gauge in a Stevenson screen on the edge of the school's playing fields. 8. Late January, early February weather: the climate is temperate. Temperatures are generally between 4-8 degrees centigrade. Frosts may occur on some nights (usually no more than three consecutive nights). Monthly rainfall is around 50mm. Snowfall, when it occurs, is generally light. Recent years have seen a trend to more rain and wind. We are looking forward to sharing our observations with you.
Some information about us 1. Eno Primary School Address: Alapappilantie 12 8120 Eno Finland email: enon.aa@eno.fi website(english) 2. The names of teachers : Mika Vanhanen. Subjects: Information technology, sciences(Globe program) and music 3. The names of the students who will be involved: Heiskanen Janne Hyttinen Niko Hyttinen Sami Hmlinen Jyrki Karhap Tuomas Kaste Antti Kauppinen Veera Knudsen Siv Kotilainen Jenni Laakkonen Marko Laakkonen Tatu Laakkonen Timo Leppnen Seppo Lomu Krista Mannukka Jussi Miettinen Jouni Mnnist Antti Nuutinen Timo Nygren Heidi Oksman Joona Penttinen Mikko Pitknen Heikki Saaristo Niko Saastamoinen Vesa Schwartz Henry Simonen Ilkka Sivonen Irinja Soikkeli Petra Terml Antti Tuononen Markus Turunen Teemu Vanhala Emilia Varis Mikko Vartiainen Sampo Vnsk Jonne You can find their photos here when clicking their names: 4. The ages of the students: 12 yrs 5. The precise location of your school: Latitude : 62 deg 47.45 min North Longitude : 30 deg 9.82 min East Elevation : 128 m a topographic image of Eno area: is here forest area some industry ( Enocell, pulp mill). 6. The time you will make your weather observations: 12.00 local time/10.00 UTC 7. Information about the instruments you will be using and where they are located/exposed: We have a manual and an automatic weather station. We have been measuring daily since October 1995. More information from here. 8. weather normally here in late January and early February: average temperature about -11 - -12 degrees Celsius. Current temperatures ( graphs) in January 96-98 can be found here Our winter research: A LoNG Winter?( in English) Winter Locally, Nationally and Globally on Latitude 62N How Do You Feel In Winter ? Best wishes Mika Vanhanen Eno Finland welcome
Hello from Gordon's School, Woking, Surrey GU24 9PT England! 1. This is an 11 to 18 state grant maintained boarding school, with just over four hundred pupils, a mixture of boys and girls. The full title of the school is the National Memorial to General Gordon. More on our website! 2. The teachers involved are Roy Oettinger (deputy head) Maggie Cunningham (Science) Shencyn Hughes (geography) and Jason Dunn (Geography) 3 The pupils involved are M Stevens, JWaters, D Philpotts, M Woodley (all year 10) and M Lazell, J Snider, G Hetherington, T Houghton, G Greenshields, J Ayres, S Crossman, D Hillier, A Cahill, N Annalls, all year 8. 4 Year 10 pupils are 15 years old year 8 pupils are 13 year old . 5. The school is located in rolling concrete(!) It's surrounded by roads, but there is a lot of green space, about 50 acres, which we use as playing fields and recreation space. We are in the Surrey Heath Borough, population 60,000, consisting of the town of Camberley and surrounding large villages . There is light industry in this area, but it is also agricultural , and residential, being close to several large towns eg Guildford and Woking. London is only 35 km away. West End village is approx 9km NW of Woking, Surrey, very close to a motorway (M3). Our exact location is 51 18 N, 0 33 W. Altitude is approx 50m above sea level. Population of West End village is 3,346 from 1991 census. Woking population 86,765. West End village is approx 1,452 hectares in area, and has approx 1221 households. The average population density is 2.3: 47% of the population are 30 to retirement age. 10% of households have 2 or more cars. 85% of houses are privately owned. Ethnicity of the area: 99% white. 6. We will be taking our readings at 11.00am each morning. 7. Weather readings: wind direction from weather vane on top of 30m high building. Max/min thermometer on south facing wall, 1.5 m from the ground. Dry/wet bulb thermometer, and barometer, in similar position. Rain gauge on open ground, anemometer on very open ground (playing fields) 8. The weather here in late January and early February is generally cold, sometimes with snow.
Greetings from Spain Some information about us: 1. The name and address of your school and any other information about your school that may be of interest to project participants. IES "F. Vidal i Barraquer" President Companys, 3 43005 TARRAGONA (SPAIN) web site of school(catalan language) web site of meteorology group (catalan language) web site of meteorology group (english language) 2. The names of all teachers who will be involved. Josep Camps Josep M. Borrut Joan M. MaixÈ Physics, Chemistry, Meteorology 3. The names of the students who will be involved. Josep Anguera Albert GirÛn JosÈ LÛpez Ana BelÈn PortolÈs Nria Sumoy 4. The ages of the students who will be involved. 17-19 5. The precise location of your school and details of the location Latitude: 41 deg 07 min North Longitude: 1 deg 14 min East Height above sea level: 25 m Tarragona is a coastal city (near the Mediterranean sea in the valley of River FrancolÌ) famous for their roman past (with important roman patrimony). Population: 100.000 persons, approx. Is a very important industrial petrochemical area and also a good touristic destination. 6. The time you will make your weather observations. If possible, you should make them at about the same time each day, please. 11.00 local time. 10.00 (GMT) 7. Information about the instruments you will be using and where they are located/exposed. We have a manual and a automatic weather station. Instruments: Six's maximun and minimum thermometer, wet and dry bulb hygrometer, rain gauge, thermograph, higrograph, anemometer and wind vane, aneroid barometer, barograph. Other observations: visibility, cloud cover and type, thunder and lightning. Instruments located in the top of the building of the institute. 8. A general idea of what the weather is normally like in your part of the world in late January and early February. Average temperature maximum: 13.6 degrees Celsius Average temperature minimum: 5.7 degrees Celsius Rainfall monthly (average): 21.7 mm We are looking forward to the 1999 project. Josep Camps and the spanish team.
James Gillespie's High school is situated near the centre of Edinburgh 55. 56 N, 3.12 W. For those of you who know the city we are about two miles south of Princes Street in the Marchmont district. We are a state comprehensive (1100 students) and receive children from all over Edinburgh and beyond. Our first year students are usually aged 12 and we teach Scottish Higher in fifth year and A Level in sixth (note the differences with the English system). Class sizes are limited to 25 in the junior school and 20 in the upper school, and there is a long list of children waiting to fill any vacancies. The site of the school is less than ideal from the collection of met data since the confined nature of the campus means that there will always be some inaccuracy in our recordings. However, I have a cohort of budding young meteorologists who are willing to take manual recordings so we will be able to join in the fun. Weather observations will be made at 11:15 every morning by a team of fourth year students (15 years old). They are: Kieran Heil (Team Leader) Anna McCorquodale Christopher Dyer Jamie Hamill Gavin Robertson Ryan Higgins There are many adjectives which one could use to describe our weather in January but the best is an old Scottish word - dreich - meaning cold, damp and generally miserable. Temperatures are usually in the range + 8 to -5 C but feels a lot colder with wind chill (mean midday wind speed for January 1998 was 8.5 knots). We do not tend to get a lot of snow, but make up for this with considerable amounts of rainfall (99mm in January 1998). For over ten years we have been undertaking advanced fieldwork with the senior students and much of this work is in applied meteorology. Together with a school in Pennsylvania, recent expeditions have taken us to the icefields in Norway and the Rocky Mountains in Wyoming and Montana. You might like to surf to these sites for more information: this and this. George Meldrum
Greetings from Oslo, and welcome to Kristelig Gymnasium! Our postal address is: Kristelig Gymnasium Oscarsgate 1A N - 0352 Oslo NORWAY e-mail address: metlink@kg.vgs.no Kristelig Gymnasium is a private Christian School (aged 13-18), with approx. 800 students. The school is situated in downtown Oslo. The names of the teachers in the MetLink Team are: Miss Gunn Marie Johansen (English) Miss Kathrine Krueger (English) Miss Lene Christine Mikalsen (English) Mr Leif Thore Jelmert (Geograpyh, Chemistry and Mathematics) Mr Moritz Royr (Geography, Physics and Mathematics) The students in the MetLink Weather Team are between 15 and 16 years old, and consist of three classes of year-10-students. They will appreciate personal contact with other students on e-mail level. All our students have their personal e-mail address at school. The school is located at 59 degrees 56 minutes north, 10 degrees 44 minutes east. The altitude is about 30 meters above sea-level. Oslo is at the inner part og The Oslo Fjord, and the school is situated 1 kilometer from the shore. Oslo is the capital city of Norway, and the population of the town is half a million. Surrounding the town we have both industrial areas, farmlands and forests. The weather observations will be taken at lunchtime (12.00) every day, and the instruments are placed in the school yard. Snowfall-registrations will be taken both in the school yard and on the top of one of the buildings. We will take manual observations, using: max/min thermometer rain gauge barometer hair-hygrometer cloud chart The average temperature in February is normally about minus 5 degrees Celsius, and a rain/snowfall of approximately 40 mm water. February is the driest month of the year, and September is the wettest (90mm). The temperature may vary quite a lot, from plus 5 degrees to minus 20 degrees Celsius, depending on the wind direction. The dominant wind directions are either warm and humid Atlantic air from south-west, or much colder and drier Arctic air from north-east. We look forward to taking part in the project. Best regards, The MetLink Weather Team at Kristelig Gymnasium.
Larne Grammar School Lower Cairncastle Road Larne Co Antrim, Northern Ireland BT40 1PQ (phone 01574 272791) THE TOWN Larne is a town, with a population of approximately 20,000, lying on the northern end of Larne Lough and on the east coast of Northern Ireland (www.larne.com). The town has a south to south-east aspect and is the southern gateway to the Antrim Coast Road. It is a, dominantly, market and port town with very few sizeable industries with the exception of a diesel generator manufacturer, FG Wilson, and a paper mill. THE SCHOOL Larne Grammar caters for almost 800 students from age 11 to 18 but at present they are sitting internal exams and names of participating students are not available. ME! Teacher involved is Eddie McAuley. WEATHER OBSERVATIONS The Stevenson screen is at an altitude of approx 45 metres. Data will be recorded at 0900 hours GMT. We will record: wind direction and speed, max and min temp, cloud cover and precipitation, visibility. OUR WEATHER IS awful! It is renowned for its extreme variability owing to a latitude of 55 degrees North and the westerly position. Generally, it is mild and wet. Max temps range from 2 to 16 C and min from -11 to 12. Snow is rare but most days feel like "rain days" (at least this winter). Eddie McAuley
PITSFORD HALL WEATHER STATION A professional climatological station maintained by NORTHAMPTONSHIRE GRAMMAR SCHOOL METLINK INFORMATION 1. Name and address: Northamptonshire Grammar School, Pitsford, Northampton NN6 9AX web site 2. The names of staff who will be involved: Mike Lewis, Head of Geography: mjlewis@brixworth.demon.co.uk or mlewis@ngs.northants.sch.uk Simon Larter: slarter@ngs.northants.sch.uk Northamptonshire Grammar School Geography Department web site Pitsford Hall weather station web site: 3. The names of the students who will be involved: Ben Goodyear, Simon Fleming, Chris Cockrell, Andrew Sunderland, Alex Jackman 4. The students are aged 16-17yrs and are responsible for the maintenance of the school's weather station on a daily basis. They have been trained in basic meteorology as part of their A-level course. 5. Pitsford Hall weather station is at latitude 52 18' N 0 53' W. It is 115m above sea level on a hill overlooking the Brampton valley, a tributary of the River Nene. The weather station is maintained by the Department of Geography and supplies weather data to a number of private individuals, professional organisations, university departments, the COL bulletin as well as Northants 96, the local independent radio station. 6. Observations are made daily at 0830 GMT and a weather report released via e-mail and fax at 0900 hours. Observations are also updated daily via the station's web site. Schools participating in MetLink are invited to register for this daily weather report by either e-mailing the weather station directly (weather@brixworth.demon.co.uk) on by filling in the online registration form on the web site. Observations made and instrumentation: Maximum temperature, minimum temperature, dry bulb temperature, wet bulb temperature, relative humidity (Stevenson screen with UKMO approved maximum and minimum thermometers, hygrometer and thermograph) Rainfall total, duration and acidity (Snowdon-type pattern raingauge, sterilised British Association raingauge, tilting syphon rainfall recorder, high resolution digital pH meter) Barometric pressure (UKMO approved micro-barograph, Fortin mercury barometer) Wind speed (mean, max gust and direction) (digital anemometer and wind vane - soon to be replaced with UKMO approved cup-counter anemometer) Sunshine hours (UKMO approved Campbell-Stokes sunshine recorder) Grass and concrete minimum temperatures (digital thermometers - soon to be replaced with sheathed pattern minimum thermometers in a new separate ground enclosure) Other observations made: visibility, cloud cover and type, snow/sleet, hail, thunder and lightning etc. We are looking forward to participating in the 1999 MetLink project. Remember, to receive a report from this station simply e-mail us or register online. -- Mike Lewis Head of Geography (with Geology) Northamptonshire Grammar School Pitsford Northampton NN6 9AX Geography dept. e-mail: mjlewis@brixworth.demon.co.uk incorporating Pitsford Hall Weather Station
Welcome to Pennar School - Wales!
Our address is:
Pennar Junior School,
Owen Street,
Pennar,
Pembroke Dock SA72 6SL
Pembrokeshire
Wales
Your contact names will be Mr. B. Jones, Mrs E. Jones and Mr. P. Griffiths.
The project will involve pupils from Year 3 and from Year 6 at our school.
Year 6 are 10-11 years old, Year 3 are 7-8 years old.
Our school is located on the outskirts of the town of Pembroke Dock -
population approximately 10,000 - which is on the South bank of the River
Cleddau which flows into the Irish Sea. As the crow flies we are 5 miles
from the coast. We are very close to the local oil refineries and to the
Ferryport but the surroundings are rural. We are approximately 50m above
sea level.
You can read our School Webpages and follow our European Links by visiting
here.
Pembrokeshire is a well known tourist area which encompasses the
Pembrokeshire Coast National Park and numerous sandy beaches. Being on the
extreme West of Wales the climate is mild but also damp (sometimes very
wet - like today!).
We will be taking our measurements at 10.30 a.m. each morning.
We currently have the following equipment which we will be using for these
readings:
Maximum/minimum thermometer
Rain gauge
Aneroid barometer
Simple anemometer
Wind sock
These will be located in the School grounds to the North and the South of
the School.
We look forward to the project!
Our School is Peterhouse, a boys private school of some 540 students ranging in ages from 12-19. We have a sister school, Peterhouse Girls nearby, and a feeder prep school, Springvale House. The names of all teachers involved are myself (Andy Griggs), and Phillipa Sex, the Head of Department. Both of us are full time Geography teachers. The students taking part are a group of 5 boys (names as yet not finalized) who are in their O level examination year, and are all 16 years old. The School is located at 18' 10'' 30''' S, 31'35''30''' E, about 8km south east of the town of Marondera, which has a population of some 20,000 people. It is on a watershed which runs E-W across the country at this point, and the landscape is gently undulating. There is a small amount of light industry in Marondera, but the main land use of the region is commercial farming, concentrating mainly on maize and tobacco. We will be making our weather recordings at 7.30am (5.30GMT), using a six's thermometer, wet/dry bulb hygrometer, anaeroid barometer, rain gauge and ventimeter. We will also make visual estimates of cloud cover. The instruments are located in and around a Stevenson Screen, near the Geography department of the school. We expect rain at this time of the year, as we are influenced to a great extent by the ITCZ which migrates around us between October and April. At present it appears to have come to a complete haly over Zimbabwe, as we have been having far more rains than normal for the past 6 weeks. At present however, we are having something of a respite, with some sunshine. We are looking forward to taking part in this project for the second year running. Andy Griggs
Our second year of MetLinks and I hope it is as informative and fun for all taking part. Pinewood School Pinewood School, Bourton, Swindon, Wilts, SN6 8HZ, UK. 'Phone: 01793 782205 (S), 01793 783010 (H) We are a mixed independent prep.school of 210 children aged from 4-13. The senior part of the school has 140 children and those working on the 'weather watch' will be in their penultimate year (aged 11/12). Location: 7km East of Swindon just in Oxfordshire (51'34N, 1'40W). Altitude: 100m above sea level, 85km from the South coast. The school has done very little practical work on weather but last year we built our first weather station. It is sited in a very exposed area. Readings will be taken daily by the children at 11.00. The work we are doing will be of great educational value and we look forward to some interesting readings. All good wishes for 1999 Jim
RADLEY COLLEGE: INFORMATION 1. Name and address: Radley College, Abingdon, Oxon, UK OX14 2HR web site 2. The names of Geography Teachers who will be involved: John Harris (Head of Geography) mjh @ radley.org.uk Radley College Geography Website 3. The names of the students who will be involved: Barwood HJR Harry, Beardall SJ Sam, Beare CHL Charles, Boswell TCI Tom, Buri P Mon, Devonshire REJ Robert, Donald JLP James, Fearn MP Matthew, Gascoigne JAH Julian, Goldsmith WDJ Will, Heath N Nick, Hoare HCG Henry, Hodgson JM James, Holmes AM Andrew, Jakins HPA Henry, Jeans BJ Ben, Kelway JCP Jack, Lewis FWH Freddie, Mapelli Mozzi EA Ed, Marriage JJ Jethro, Mason AHW Archie, Mee HWJ Harry, Niven AJS Alexander, Oddie NG Neil, Oughton CAH Charlie, Parker SG Samuel, Peile MH Max, Pollard JWH James, Quicke EJ Edward, Rees TL Tom, Reid BJD Benji, Rolls GTA Giles, Sample RA Rory, Singh I Inderneel, Staveley ECW Edward, Thomas OC Owain, Truman EBJ Ned, Tuckett PdeB Philip 4. The students are14-15yrs and are studying weather as part of their GCSE course. 5. Radley College is at latitude 55.30N; longitude 3.42W. It is 70 metres above sea level in the valley of the River Thames. The college is near to the small village of Radley (population 5,000) 4 miles south of Oxford (population 110,000) and is surrounded by farmland. 6. Weather observations will be taken each morning at 08.30 GMT 7. Instruments are located near to the buildings of the Geography Department: Six's max and minimum thermometer, wet and dry bulb hygrometer, rain gauge, aneroid barometer, ventimeter. 8. Late January and early February weather: the climate is temperate with slight continentality due to the inland location. Average January/Februray temperatures are 2-8 degrees centigrade with some overnight frosts and monthly rainfall of approximately 60mm with occasional snowfall. This winter has been surprisingly mild with record January temperatures of 16 deg C recorded on January 6, 1999. We are looking forward to the 1999 project ============================================== John Harris Head of Geography, Radley College, Abingdon, OX14 2HR, UK Tel: (+44) 01235-543043 E-Mail: mjh@radley.org.uk Radley Geography & MetLink International Website